doomed

[ doomd ]

adjective

1. destined, or seemingly destined, especially to an adverse fate:

   Math wizards were able to pinpoint the final resting place of the doomed jet deep beneath the ocean.

2. judged guilty and sentenced, especially to death; condemned:

   Several times today and tonight the doomed man has wept like a child in his prison cell.

3. ordained or fixed, as a sentence or fate:

   In this age of finding everything online, it won’t be long before seed catalogs suffer the same doomed fate as most gardening magazines.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of doom ( def ).

Other Words From

• self-doomed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of doomed¹

doom + -ed ²( def )

Example Sentences

Unsurprisingly, despite the overall doom and gloom, some industries, which fit in this transformed layout really well, actually skyrocketed.

From Search Engine Watch

With a deadly, highly contagious face cancer tearing through devil populations, forecasts over the past decade or so spelled imminent doom for the iconic marsupial.

From Science News

Combine the pandemic with more than a quarter of a million dead, high unemployment, a health care system in crisis and a recession, and you’d presumably have a formula for entrepreneurial doom.

From Ozy

Look to other social media sites you’ve ignoredWhile Facebook and Twitter are the most obvious doom scrolling culprits, all of this goes for other sites and social networks, so you may also want to rethink how you use those platforms.

From Popular-Science

Yet the drink managed to retain some passionate devotees, even as rumors of its impending doom circulated on and off over the years.

From No Straight News

Trying to fine-tune all that to a desired end is not only a form of madness but doomed to failure.

From The Daily Beast

Has she been doomed by the science of 2014 to a life of sexual misery?

From The Daily Beast

Imagine if you were doomed forever to live inside a youthful mistake.

From The Daily Beast

The Arab spring failed, but it demonstrated the ancient regimes are doomed unless they change profoundly, which is very unlikely.

From The Daily Beast

Ultimately, the changing threat and enormous price tag doomed the program and only three ships will be built at exorbitant cost.

From The Daily Beast

“The British Raj is doomed,” she muttered, lowering her voice, and bringing her magnificent eyes close to his.

From Project Gutenberg

The poor woman forced back her tears in order to smile upon the unfortunate son whom she knew to be doomed.

From Project Gutenberg

I believe we thought so; and I know that Ennis, who was thus doomed to a further period of single blessedness, thought the same.

From Project Gutenberg

But in all this, we were doomed to disappointment, sad, sad disappointment.

From Project Gutenberg

Louis the Goon Engel was a mere walk-on in the piece, a spear-carrier doomed to death.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• ill-fated
• wrecked